''One can see, when one studies oneself very attentively.... For example, if you observe yourself, you see that one day you are very generous - let us take this, it is easy to understand - very generous: generous in your feelings, generous in your sensations, generous in your thoughts and even in material things; that is, you understand the faults of others, their intentions, weaknesses, even nasty movements. You see all this, and you are full of good feelings, of generosity. You tell yourself,…
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''The world-ways opened before Savitri.
At first a strangeness of new brilliant scenes
Peopled her mind and kept her body's gaze.
But as she moved across the changing earth
A deeper consciousness welled up in her:
A citizen of many scenes and climes,
Each soil and country it had made its home;
It took all clans and peoples for her own,
Till
the whole destiny of mankind was hers. ''
Book IV The Book of Birth and Quest
Canto IV The Quest Page 377…
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Added by kalpana on November 17, 2009 at 7:32pm —
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''It's
one of the most indispensable things to do if one wants to
succeed in having self-control and even a limited
self-knowledge: to
be able to localise one's consciousness and
move it about in the different parts of one's being, in such a way as to
distinguish between one's consciousness and one's thought, feelings, impulses, become
aware of what the consciousness is in itself. And in this way
one can learn how to shift it: one can
pu…
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''It's
one of the most indispensable things to do if one wants to
succeed in having self-control and even a limited
self-knowledge: to
be able to localise one's consciousness and
move it about in the different parts of one's being, in such a way as to
distinguish between one's consciousness and one's thought, feelings, impulses, become
aware of what the consciousness is in itself. And in this way
one can learn how to shift it: one can
pu…
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Sometimes, when one feels impatient on the path of spiritual realisation, it is worth noting the 3 factors pointed out by the Mother: 1. time-scale, 2.understanding of failures, 3. effort and circumstance. These are Her words:
''From the point of view of spiritual realisation, time has no concrete reality;
all depends on the sincerity and intensity of the aspiration, on the steadiness of the effort. Some can do in a few weeks and even days what takes years for others. Moreover,
as the…
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''Faith does not depend upon experience; it is something that is there before experience. When one starts the yoga, it is not usually on the strength of experience, but on the strength of faith.
It is so not only in yoga and the spiritual life, but in ordinary life also. All men of action, discoverers, inventors, creators of knowledge proceed by faith and, until the proof is made or the thing done, they go on in spite of disappointment, failure, disproof, denial because of something in…
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Added by kalpana on October 31, 2009 at 3:08pm —
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We do not need to make things complicated, when Sri Aurobindo himself places the methods of opening and receiving the Divine Presence into our mind, heart and body.
What is stopping us from applying this? In 24 hours, how many minutes do we actually remember to do this?
No, we humans always want something more complicated...
May we simply open, open and open to the Divine, with quiet mind, and receive Peace, Light, Ananda and a Force that works!
''
In this yoga the whole principle…
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Added by kalpana on October 25, 2009 at 2:35pm —
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''When you are in a particular set of circumstances and certain events take place, these events often oppose your desire or what seems best of you, and often you happen to regret this and say to yourself, "Ah! how good it would have been if it were otherwise, if it had been like this or like that", for little things and big things… Then years pass by, events are unfolded; you progress, become more conscious, understand better, and
when you look back, you notice - first with astonishment, then…
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Added by kalpana on October 21, 2009 at 10:58pm —
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Looking for online Yoga Vasistha in Samskrtam.
Thanks.
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Added by kalpana on October 15, 2009 at 1:29pm —
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I feel I need to read this very regularly, because it really helps me in daily life, by [a] giving words to express aspiration [b] reminding me not to be a 'donkey'[!] [c] helping to uncover the tricks of the ego and showing areas for improvement!
- The Mother [CWMCE, 4:117-19]
''You can at
every minute make the gift of your will in an aspiration - and an aspiration which formulates itself very simply, not just "Lord, Thy will be done", but
"Grant that I may do as well as I c…
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Added by kalpana on October 10, 2009 at 2:37pm —
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The idea of 'caste' has been made into rigid mould by ignorant Hindus.
Sri Aurobindo points back to its original psychology, as a way of identifying and developing these four interactive propensities, latent or dominant in all:
Sri Aurobindo states that
each man within himself contains all four (powers)castes, although outwardly only one predominates
''We must realise that the ancient Aryan Rishis meant by the Chaturvarnya not a mere social division, but a recognition of God manifesting…
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''Aspiration in everyone, no matter who it is, has the same power. But the
effect of this aspiration is different. For aspiration is aspiration: if you have
aspiration, in itself it has a power. Only,
this aspiration calls down an answer, and
this answer, the effect, which is the result of the aspiration, depends upon each one, for it depends upon his receptivity. I know many people of this kind: they say, "Oh! but I aspire all the time and…
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''Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate on Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs. For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal. And then, every question, however personal it may be, has its answer here, every difficulty finds its solution herein; indeed there is everything that is necessary for doing the Yoga.''…
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''Each one--
this totality of substance constituting your inner and outer body, the totality of substance with which your being is built from the outermost to the inmost--
is a field of work; it is as though one had gathered together carefully, accumulated a certain number of vibrations and put them
at your disposal for you to work upon them fully.
It is like a field of action constantly at your disposal: night and day, waking or asleep, all the time--
nobody can take it awa…
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Added by kalpana on September 25, 2009 at 2:38am —
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Question of the Month,February 1999 http://www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in/qstarch/qstfeb99.htm
"I am with you"
Mother, you have said, "I am with you." What does it mean exactly? When we pray or struggle with a problem within ourselves, are we really heard, always, in spite of our clumsiness and imperfection, in spite even of our bad will and our error? And who hears? You who are with us?...
The Mother has given a very beautiful answer to this question which has a great relevance fo…
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Added by kalpana on September 24, 2009 at 7:10pm —
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Mother`s Mantra
«Om namo Bhagavate»
Translation:
AUM — Three Worlds and the Beyond, as a form of God.
namo — out of respect I bow down.
Bhagavate — Supreme.
Concentration:
I (manifesting as the Three Worlds and the Beyond)
completely open towards the Supreme.
Sri Aurobindo Gayatri
The Mantra that was written by Sri Aurobindo in "On Himself", p. 513.
OM TAT SAVITUR VARAM RUPAM
JYOTIH PARASYA DHIMAHI
YO NAH SATYENA DIPAYET
Translation:
OM — Three Wo…
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Added by kalpana on September 16, 2009 at 2:37pm —
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Surrendering oneself to the Divine can be a scary idea to our everyday mind/self, we might have a secret fear that we might be annihilated or be some sort of human-personality sacrifice or become some kind of zombie without any individuality or personality...
Well, the Mother makes a clear distinction in the following Q & A :
''Q. Is not surrender the same as sacrifice?
The Mother:
In our Yoga there is no room for sacrifice. In the significance that it now bears, sacrifice is s…
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Added by kalpana on September 6, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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In this blog I am choosing some practices offered by the Mother, which one could include in daily life.
I hope other ASPIRATION members will add one's that they use regularly and share their experiences.
''We read, we try to understand, we explain, we try to know. But
a single minute of true experience teaches us more than millions of words and hundreds of explanations.
So the
first question is: "How to have the experience?"
To
go within yourself, that is the firs…
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Added by kalpana on August 25, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Selected lines from Mother's Agenda - a flavour of the ground-breaking work Mother was undertaking, in her own physical body. from
http://www.auroville.org/vision/maagenda.htm
Mother's Agenda 1951-1973
Overview :... 6,OOO-page work ... 13 volumes .... the day-to-day account over 22 years of Mother's exploration into the body consciousness and her discovery of a "cellular mind", capable of restructuring the nature of the body and the laws of the species … a timely…
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Added by kalpana on August 22, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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If you go on this website/link, you can click on a link that helps in the following way:
[ http://www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in/quotes.htm]
'' For Guidance and Help
All of us find that often we are confronted with a problem or a situation where we do not know what to do. It has been the experience of many of us that, at such times, we took a book of Sri Aurobindo or the Mother, like Savitri, The Synthesis of Yoga, concentrated quietly and asked for guidance, help or an answer an…
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Added by kalpana on August 19, 2009 at 6:01pm —
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